Maintainers at Moody Air Force Base, Ga. rescued an A-10 Thunderbolt II attack jet from the boneyard when they replaced a horizontal stabilizer after it had been severely damaged by a mid-flight bird strike on May 30.
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After a series of incidents in the skies over Syria, Russian pilots appear to have become less aggressive toward U.S. forces following the arrival of F-35 stealth multirole fighters to the Middle East, according to U.S. officials. Originally tasked to deter Iranian attacks on commercial ...
Aircraft from every U.S. Air Forces in Europe flying wing kicked off Astral Knight 23-6 late last week, the latest in a series of exercises across the continent focused on Agile Combat Employment. F-16s, F-35s, KC-135s, and a C-130J are all flying in the exercise from ...
The Air Force is investigating a ground emergency involving an F-16 fighter jet that took place at Misawa Air Base, Japan on Aug. 17. No one was injured in the mishap.
The Air Force announced it conducted another test of the AGM-183 Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) hypersonic missile on Aug. 19. But while the service said the event provided useful data, it declined to say whether the vehicle hit its planned target and did not ...
Heavy rain and winds from Tropical Storm Hilary only briefly interrupted operations at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., but an assessment has yet to be made of the storm's effect on the dry lakebeds that serve as runways for test aircraft.
An Air Force B-2 Spirit bomber flew deep into the Arctic Circle on Aug. 15 on its way from Iceland to Alaska to participate in the training exercise Red Flag-Alaska 23-3, drawing within a few hundred miles of the North Pole.
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. wants leaders to understand how to empower subordinates to make decisions, a skillset he believes will be essential to winning a possible future conflict where units may find themselves isolated from command.
Ukraine won’t get a basic F-16 capability until at least 2024, and developing proficiency with that aircraft “could be four or five years down the road,” Gen. James B. Hecker, commander of U.S. Air Forces Europe and Air Forces-Africa, said Aug. 18. Hecker also downplayed ...